welcom back, scary moments on this icy idaho road, look at that, a tractor trailer welcome back. scary moments on this icy idaho road. look at that. a tractor trailer jackknifed and the trailer slammed in to the back of the patrol car, the trooper was not hurt and the driver fled the scene and was caught ten miles away. >> this morning, transportation secretary pete buttigieg will be sworn in by vice president kamala harris. buttigieg is the first openly game man to win senate confirmation for a cabinet position. former acting director of national intelligence richard granell was the first gay man to

serve in a cabinet last year. thortsz in southern california are looking into ca an d d ke hpils with second and third degr e usfi wckly pit with out. have big decisions to make after suffering serious damage during the nor'easter. three homes in the town of sandwich werendermined by the heavy surf. one of them completely toppled over. and they say the beach has eroded rapidly and it led to the destruction. a big snowball fight on the campus of the university of virginia has prompted an apology. it was not in line with the school or local covid-19 protocols and they are rededicating to those policies, including social distancing and wearing a face mask. and here in new york, more

than 17 inches of snow helped a snowman. >> you have to love it. over in d.c., our white house team created their own little snowman, as well. so people getting creative. you know why? >> why? >> because there's different type of snows. i am figuring this out and it was like the nice hard snow that actually keeps the form instead of the light, fluffy snow. so people were like, oh. >> wait, our white house team has time to make snowmen down there now? they are like -- >> they took off the tweet alerts and so they have time. >> look, we are just -- oh, yeah, we've been covering a lot of news the past four years, but now we have time to make snowmen. no, they work very hard down there. it's an incredible team. i love them. i love them all. >> shout out to our white house, too. and the end of an era for jeff bezos and amazon, as he steps down, we are looking back at 1999 and what he told abc's peter jennings.

and later, why four guys scarfed down 6/6 pounds of oranges. vita news now.

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♪ you can ring my bell ♪ ♪ ring my bell ♪ and we say good morning to the emerald city, seattle, home of the iconic space needle. good morning to you and thank you to our friends for the beautiful image of seattle as well. after 27 years of ringing our door bells the man who started amazon is now stepping into a new role. >> yes. the man who raised home values there in seattle is now worth

nearly $200 billion. he first landed on the forbes billionaires list back in 1999. so he was definitely partying like it was that year. with a net worth back then of only $10 billion. >> oh. >> that year, mona, he spoke with abc's peter jennings as we open up the abc news vault to december 27th, 1999. sales don't actually come out for weeks, but "the wall street journal" said that the total retail sales are up as much as 8% from last year and a company called bizrate.com said that online sales increased 400%. we will talk a bit about the ecommerce christmas. and we have jeff bezos, and with bruce vankleet who is joining us from a mall in virginia. mr. bezos, let me start with you. you are such an enormous

cheerleader for ecommerce. did it live up to expectations? >> i think it did for the most part. it mee companies e eated equal. there's a big learning curve. some companies did not focus on back-end logistics. by and large, i think things went well for economy customers. >> what are the back end logistics, like delivery? >> yes, some of the -- you know, the less glamorous, but incredibly important part of the business. fulfillment and shipping and customer service. you have to have a website that is easy to use, but you also have to build distribution centers like this and have customer service centers. you have to be old shippg products to customers is really important. >> mr. vancleet, we find you in a mall in virginia. in the longer term, do you think that americans will shop a lot from ecommerce and retailers should be worried? >> no, not at all. very many retail stores have successful online stores. so clearly this is the growth

for rai sales in all. estion your own chims shopping.what didouthnet and did it >> actually, i bought some videos and cds and i did buy some products from amazon and they were delivered on time as expected. so i had a great shopping experience. >> mr. bezos, what did you buy in a store? >> i always of course buy even half of my books, which is one of the categories that am zone is known for. physical shopping is not going away. >> you think it's because people will want the commonality that being with other people brings. >> i think that's exactly right. we are a gregarious species and we're not about to stop going outside and visiting with people in stores. >> that's a very encouraging word to hear in the christmas season. thank you very much, speaking to us from virginia. >> wow. >> that was peter jennings back inecr 19, a i would just go ahead and say, a lot has

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te a wastl of it.he fu >> mona, tell them what you said over the commercial break. >> i would grab the microphone and be like, no, it's a lie. ask sears. where is radio shak? where? >> because he said retail stores have nothing to worry about. the brick and mortar. >> that is a lie. >> and they don't just sell books in the future. >> no. >> and they will not be gathering at the shopping malls because there will be a global pandemic. oh, my god, i'm sorry. >> that's the new back to the future movie.

>> definitely, we are kicking off with drunk birds, wait, what? >> the birds flying south for the winter, they have gotten southern comfort. >> aavbeatg the berries. they are not can balances themselves. they are eating the berries that w ey getting drunk? they are eating fermented berries and they eat too. >> you said patron, you were fancy. you didn't think how about some tito's. >> a little of the plastic candle vodkas. >> all that name brand stuff. also in "wait, what," you know sometimes there's extra es on th you're

like, i don't want to pay that so you will take extra clothe out so you don't have to pay the fees on the overage or whatever. these folks ate 66 oranges, and they had to eat a big box of oranges. i'm going to embarrass my mother down in south carolina. we went to hawaii and my mother could not bring the melon back on the plane because they don't let you bring certain produce and things back. i was like, you should just eat it now, but she didn't eat it. we had to toss it. >> i am still bitter about the full bottles of shampoo and coit e and now, this dolphin is predicting -- it's a clearwater aquarium dolphin and it predicts the winner of the super bowl will be the kansas city chiefs. >> wait, what?

that is not bad. and this man who got arrested see if you know where he is from? >> oh, is it a florida man that got arrest inside. >> yes. >> and he got arrested because he was trying to call 911 for a ride home. they said, you are abusing our

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